Description

In this video we take a first look at Visual Studio Code with NodeJS. We dig into IntelliSense for JavaScript using TypeScript definition files, configuring the launch settings and debugging the NodeJS application in Visual Studio Code.

The Discussion

Nice introduction. It would be nice to see a more advanced tour through the features - maybe an hour long Visual Studio Toolbox video would be nice, though you showed a good amount considering the video is less than 10 minutes long.

One question - clearly, it has some built-in knowledge of Node.js and Javascript. Is there a way of extending that?

In that session they outline the language support categorised into good, better and best.

C# and TypeScript are currently in the Best category. JavaScript is in the Better category (with HTML, CSS, JSON, ...). The Good category has a wide range of lanugages such as CoffeeScript, Python, Ruby, Clojure, R, powershell, rust,.....